19th April 2024
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week: twin-stick shooters, caving, and ink.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Spelunky, PC
On a whim I did the Daily Challenge in Spelunky the other day. It has been years since this was a regular feature of my life. I had lots of Spelunky nerves, a reminder I hadn’t played in a while: the toothy plants made me shiver, and a door in Jungle with spike traps on either side was enough to make me doubt my abilities.
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What I soon remembered, though, was that each Spelunky run is a chance to tell your own specific story. I missed the key in the mines despite carrying the locked chest quite a distance, so I decided to load up on bombs and blast my way to the Black Market. That didn’t work out because the Jungle was a total frog-fest. I made it as far as the Ice Caverns, which is pretty good going for me, avoided death by jellifying ray from the huge alien ship, and then died, of all the things that could have killed me, by the little alien that had parachuted out of a downed UFO. It didn’t take all my life, but it bounced me into the abyss.